Tongue patch surgery makes it painful to eat

For those of you who are in the quick-fix state of mind, here is the latest in weight loss strategies.

Tongue surgery. Yup, on your tongue.

Say ahhhh….

According to glamour.com, Dr. Nikolas Chugay, a plastic surgeon in Southern California, has come up with a procedure, the Chugay Tongue Patch, that attaches a patch to the tongue that makes eating so painful you’ll be limited to basically a liquid diet. If you don’t eat or eat less often, you’ll lose weight.

Dr. Chugay deems it a safer alternative to the more drastic gastric bypass surgery or the lap band. Here is how the procedure is described on the website: “During a reversible procedure that takes less than an hour, the patient is fitted with a custom patch for the tongue which makes chewing of solid foods very difficult and painful, limiting the patient to a liquid diet. … Post operatively, patients may experience swelling of the tongue for 24-48 hours. Speech may be affected during this time but typically returns to baseline within 48 hours.” He goes as far as to call it brilliant a “Miracle Patch.”

This sounds so ridiculous to me. I guess if your desperate this would be a better way to go than say, having your stomach cut in half.

I have family members who are desperate to lose weight. One is resorting to the gastric bypass very soon and the other is considering the horrific lap band surgery, I say that because if you check out the procedure on youtube you wouldn’t want to do it.

What do you think? Would you even consider such a surgery? What extremes have you gone through to lose weight?

For those who are curious, here’s a video of the Chugay tongue patch procedure.